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Favorite Middle-earth end credits song?


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Favorite Middle-earth end credits song?  

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  1. 1. What is your favorite end credits song from the Middle-earth films?

    • In Dreams (Edward Ross)
    • May It Be (Enya)
    • Gollum's Song (Emilíana Torrini)
    • Into The West (Annie Lennox)
    • Song of the Lonely Mountain (Neil Finn)
    • I See Fire (Ed Sheeran)
    • The Last Goodbye (Billy Boyd)


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What is your favorite end credits song from the LOTR and Hobbit films?

 

My personal favorite is "Into The West". Such a perfect song to conclude the Middle-earth saga. A sad, yet hopeful piece masterfully performed by Annie Lennox.

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"Gollum's Song" is the best one.

 

But "Into the West" has been known to bring me to tears, which is to be expected when it's carrying the weight of such finality.

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I would rank them

 

1. Into The West  (Manly tears of manlyness)

2. Gollum's Song (Strong lyrics, beautiful vocals, great melody)

3. The Last Goodbye (A pretty heartwarming sendoff sang by an actual cast member)

4. In Dreams (way better than May It Be, but nothing too special)

5. The Song of the Lonely Mountain (It's unfitting, but an enjoyable song nonetheless)

6. I See Fire  (Unfitting, bland, too "pop"-ish)

7. May It Be  (I just can't stand Enya's half-whispering, I could never make out the lyrics, the melody is not memorable at all)

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1. Into the West


2. The Last Goodbye
3. May it Be
4. Gollum's Song
5. Song of the Lonely Mountain

 

 

 

 

 

 


6. I See Fire

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7 minutes ago, Holko said:

4. In Dreams (way better than May It Be, but nothing too special)

 

Nothing special?!  If it counted as a main end credits song, I'd vote for it every time.  Beautiful setting of the Shire hymn theme.

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Gollum's Song

In Dreams

Into The West

May it Be

Last Goodbye

Song of the Lonely Mountain

Down Down Down in Goblin Town

Stabbing Myself in the Ear

Being Deaf

I See Fire

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16 minutes ago, Bilbo Skywalker said:

Gollum's Song

In Dreams

Into The West

May it Be

Last Goodbye

Song of the Lonely Mountain

Down Down Down in Goblin Town

Stabbing Myself in the Ear

Being Deaf

I See Fire

 

Your gingerism is the enemy of progress!

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35 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

 

Your gingerism is the enemy of progress!

 

Yeah well, if they had souls I'd care. 

 

Also, being Irish I can insult them and it isn't an issue. 🍀 

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GOLLUM'S SONG. It's the saddest of all Middle Earth songs, and it seems to have some sort of unfinished business. 

Also, and for some strange reason, the vocalist reminds me of Elizabeth Fraser, and the song has a dream-like quality, reminiscent of Cocteau Twins.

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Likewise. But I do like it. It fits well with the rest of the score and trilogy's songs.

 

1) Gollum's Song

2) Into the West

3) In Dreams

4) May It Be

 

 

 

 

 

5) The Last Goodbye

6) Song of the Lonely Mountain

7) I See Fire

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6 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

Is that true?

 

Various sources seem to report that (based on a message apparently written by Björk herself, though I'm not sure if this message is genuine), though I don't think anyone from the filmmaking/scoring team ever confirmed that.

 

Here's the message: http://www.bjork.fr/the-LOTR-story-Emiliana-Torrini

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10 hours ago, Stefancos said:

 

I beg to differ.

 

You're a fake Paddy. Your opinion counts for nothing! 

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12 minutes ago, Richard said:

I'm genuine Oirish. Top o' the mornin' to ya, moins a Guinness,  kiss the Blarney Stone, etc. :)

It's not pronounced like that

nobody says that

buy your own Guinness

never been to Blarney 

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What hipster here is going to answer "Use Well the Days?"

 

1.  "Into the West"

2.  "In Dreams"

3.  "Gollum's Song"

4.  "I See Fire"

5.  "May It Be"

6.  "The Last Goodbye"

 

DNF. Song of the Lonely Mountain.  Yeah yeah yeah yeah?  No no no no.

 

It's a shame Shore wasn't involved on the last two Hobbit songs.  "I See Fire" is a damn good song as it is, but I think it could've been something really special if it fit better into the Middle-Earth sound.  @TheGreyPilgrim's intro is a great teaser for what could have been.

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My 15 minutes of fame.  Of course it was on JWFan.  And ye gods, what awful quality!  I must have punched that into the notation editor rather than playing it.  Idiot!  Hmm, stand by.

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I expected myself to have destroyed the "score" for this during a period of self loathing a while back, but it's one of the things blessed Liz saved.  So, here's something a little more worthy and interesting.

 

http://picosong.com/7BkF

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4 hours ago, Bilbo Skywalker said:

I'd worry about the mental faculty of anyone who calls I See Fire "a damn good song".

 

I certainly would say it's a pretty great song. It doesn't quite have that Middle-earth feel to it, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad. Besides, it's Ed Sheeran.

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Wow, I'm surprised Gollum's Song is so popular here. My favourite is Song of the Lonely Mountain. Passionately hate I See Fire, though. That's not a Middle Earht song, it's something for a yoga class.

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I'm personally not a big fan of "Gollum's Song". Too melodramatic. The singer's voice is a little over the top as well.

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4 hours ago, JohnSolo said:

 

I certainly would say it's a pretty great song. It doesn't quite have that Middle-earth feel to it, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad. Besides, it's Ed Sheeran.

 

An Ed Sheeran song makes it automatically bad. 

 

He managed to write an even shittier song than normal here too 

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